Should I put doors on a closet or not? (curtains, glass, light)
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Speaking as someone that spent decades up to retirement in the real estate investment business, if you are a landlord and renting the apartment, put up doors. It makes a bedroom with a closet without doors not acceptable to most tenants as it looks unfinished and cheap. May keep better renters from wanting to rent the place.
Why wouldn't a closet have a door? Would I rent a place with a brand new closet in the master bedroom that doesn't have a closet door? Probably not. If you're too cheap to spend 50 bucks on a door, what else did you skimp on? What kind of landlord will you be if you can't be bothered to put up a door on a new closet? Tenants really do think these things!
2. If you put a door, you can lock a family member that's misbehaves.
3. Door will allow you a hiding place if there is a burglar in the house.
4. If you put a door on the closet and you also happen to live in New York East Village, you can easily call this an extra bedroom and even rent it out for 1,000 a month. All you need to do is to put a BUNK bed and you are all set. You don't even need to put up a toilet. Have them go downstairs and use public toilet in Washington Squre Park across NYU. It's accepted in New York.
5. If you put up a door, you can use the space as a meditation room or hide your lover like Luis XV.
6. If you put a door, you can re-enact a scene from a movie The Shining. But you need to buy an axe. Your husband can play a role of John Nicholson and you need a window to throw your baby our of the window when he says "Here's Johnny!"
7. If you have a door, you can act like you are "coming out of the closet" by announcing "I'm proud and I'am out" or even :" I'm here, I'm qieer and I'm coming for your children!!!"---relax, I am gay..it's a joke
8. You can surprise your family members every Halloween by hiding behind the door and jumping out in the middle of the night. Saw in on Youtube.
I say DOORS!!!!
PS. here's another topic for a new thread-Doors vs. Curtain.
If you are using the closet for own clothes, the door will keep dust from accumulating on the shoulders of your garments, along with anything stored on the shelves! If you're renting out the apartment, buy the least expensive door possible because, you'll most likely be replacing it when the tenants move out! It'll more than likely get a fist hole in it if not ripped off it's hinges! Not all, but some renters could care less about your apartment so, in my 40 years of remodeling experience, I'd say go inexpensive on everything in order to make the largest profit in the long run! A door on every closet is a must, unless you don't care about wearing dirty clothes or, dusting off everything you take off the shelves!
I don't like sliding and folding doors, because their mechanisms are too unreliable. And I don't like thick heavy closet doors, because they're excessive and a waste of space. But a good door, that's well-designed for a closet, would be ok. If anyone ever invented one.
I'm trying to imagine why a closet wouldn't have a door.
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